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Professional Services

Manage projects more effectively, reduce risk, and boost customer satisfaction with professional services software from SAP.

The future of professional services: Everything-as-a-service

Digital transformation and professional services automation (PSA) enables you to offer new, agile business models with flexible pricing based on business outcomes.

Business model innovation

Increasingly, professional services firms are replacing “time and materials” billing with subscription-based business models and everything as a service (XaaS). 

Total workforce management

Professional services firms are managing employees and external resources more holistically and proactively to balance talent supply and demand from engagements.

Power of humans and technology

Next-generation PSA software is boosting productivity, reducing service delivery costs, and freeing experts to focus on billable work.  

Innovative professional services solutions from SAP and our partners

Solutions that address specific professional services industry needs help you achieve cost-effective transformation and sustainable growth.

SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition

Supercharge your professional services company with intelligent ERP. SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition can help you innovate with the latest technologies and improve decision-making with advanced analytics.

SAP Subscription Billing

Take a simplified approach to all tasks, from subscription product design to lifecycle management, and automate billing to create and monetize quickly and effectively.

SAP S/4HANA Cloud for projects, resource management

Get a proven framework to adopt industry best practices while attaining operational excellence – specifically across core financial and engagement management processes.

SAP Sustainability Control Tower

Reach your sustainable business ambitions with holistic, enterprise-wide sustainability performance management. You can set targets, monitor progress, and gain actionable insights from dependable sustainability data.

Integrated Project Pricing and Estimating by Twenty5 LLC

Drive efficiency and continuous learning in project-based pricing and estimating. You can use best practices, mine historical data, and improve collaboration to respond to quotation requests faster and more accurately.

Time Tracking for Service Organizations by Replicon

Capture, validate, and transform project time data in a modern user experience across desktop and mobile devices. The solution integrates with SAP S/4HANA and SAP SuccessFactors solutions, supporting global governance.

SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central

Benefit from individualized experiences and strategic solutions that empower employees to reach their potential.

Enterprise Workforce Optimization Platform by ProFinda Limited

Align the work priorities of your organization with the capabilities and desires of your workforce. This solution helps you find the right person for an assignment or role in seconds.

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Elevating strategy and service delivery to meet sustainability goals

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Training and productivity as the key to growth

Discover insights into the strategies midsize professional services firms are implementing to improve productivity and how they are responding to talent wars.

Innovating with everything-as-a-service (XaaS) models

Find out how growth-focused professional services firms are driving new revenue streams with XaaS. 

Explore PSA software for a fast-changing industry

Discover how our professional services automation software can support your business from end to end – now and in the future.

A single view of client data and interactions is key to sales effectiveness – and profitable growth. Gain consistency across channels and increase your win-rate. 

  • Better forecast based on project insights
  • Accurate project profitability and revenue tracking
  • Faster business model innovation 
  • Contextual marketing and new revenue streams
  • Best-in-class bid management 

85% decrease in the effort to create a lead.

Source: Kearney
 

After a rigorous selection process, SAP S/4HANA emerged as the clear favorite across a broad cross-section of stakeholders due to better ROI and its international capabilities. To date, we are tracking well to that business case, with plenty more opportunity remaining in the pipeline.

Christine Laurens, Chief Financial Officer, Kearney

Professional services software helps you streamline the end-to-end engagement delivery process from bid to cash. With PSA software, you can drive non-linear growth by transforming business models to sell, deliver, and bill business solutions that combine usage or subscription services, projects, and products.

  • Integrated solution from a single vendor 
  • Insights into project status
  • Project performance analytics
  • Business process automation
  • Predictive finance technology
  • Process intelligence 

87% reduction in total month end closing

Source: Rizing

SAP S/4HANA Cloud enables you to take a template and add geographies and
capabilities. We were able to reduce our monthly end close process by 87% and our operational management by 16%. 

Len Harms, Chief Experience Officer, Rizing

With a total workforce management strategy, you can scale quickly. Tap into external talent networks, while maximizing internal talent contributions. 

  • Intelligent workplace experiences across devices 
  • Visibility into talent, workforce impact, and HR costs 
  • Tracking of resource demands for project-based services 
  • Rapid talent sourcing and onboarding 
  • Market-leading talent network 

 

67% less time to complete compensation management processes.

Source: Rizing

 

We’ve freed our HR organization to focus on things we weren't able to before because we didn't have enough resources. As a result, we’re able to move up in our maturity level as an HR organization.

Katie Obi, Chief HR and Transformation Officer, Rizing

How do you control costs and minimize risk? With our PSA software, you can manage project and engagement financials – including profitability, revenue recognition, and leakage – in real time. 

  • One central journal to record company-wide financials 
  • Ability to handle multiple revenue recognition methods 
  • Tracking of services and products profitability
  • Monitoring of work in progress
  • In-depth prebuilt localization and compliance 

50% decrease in the time required to book customer invoices

Source: Adesso

I now check the booked hours every day because they are a reliable indicator
for the month-end closing. Also, the utilization and other KPIs are transparent. This helps in managing the large adesso Group.

Andreas Prenneis, Board Member, adesso SE